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1. A French abbot.
5. Lower in esteem.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis (born 1914).
14. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
15. 10 grams.
16. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
17. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
19. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
21. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
22. The sixth month of the civil year.
23. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
24. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
25. State in northeastern India.
28. Tag the base runner to get him out.
30. English monk and scholar (672-735).
34. Capable of being influenced or formed.
38. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
39. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
40. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
43. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
44. Youngest daughter of the prophet Mohammed and wife of the fourth calif Ali.
46. A small cake leavened with yeast.
48. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
49. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. A son who has the same first name as his father.
57. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
61. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
62. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
63. Of or relating to coitus or copulation.
65. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
66. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
67. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
68. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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1. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
2. 1,000 baiza equal 1 riyal-omani.
3. Divulge information or secrets.
4. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
6. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
7. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
8. A large number or amount.
9. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
11. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
12. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
18. Fallow deer.
20. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
29. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
31. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
32. An informal term for a father.
33. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
35. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
36. Jordan's port.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. A radioactive transuranic element.
42. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
45. A slight amount or degree of difference.
47. A genus of Platalea.
48. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
50. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
51. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
52. An associate degree in nursing.
53. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
54. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
55. Little known Kamarupan languages.
56. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
58. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
59. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
60. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
64. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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